Sarah Sherman is making amends with Aimee Lou Wooden after her controversial portrayal of her White Lotus character.
Sherman performed Wooden’s Chelsea in “The White Potus” skit, which aired on the April 12 episode of Saturday Night time Dwell and prompted widespread backlash as Wooden known as the portrayal “imply and unfunny” as she mirrored on the way it damage her in a sequence of Instagram Tales posts.
Two days later, Wooden, 31, shared one other submit on her Instagram Tales, revealing that Sherman had despatched her a bouquet amid backlash to the skit.
“Thanks for the gorgeous flowers,” Wooden wrote over the picture, tagging the SNL comic, 32, who she beforehand stated had reached out and apologized to her.
Whereas Sherman has apologized to the actress, TMZ reported that the late-night sketch comedy present has not issued a proper apology to Wooden, regardless of her Instagram submit that she’d “had apologies from SNL.”
In her preliminary submit reacting to the skit — which satirized all the different White Lotus season 3 stars and noticed Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump, Beck Bennett as Vladimir Putin and host Jon Hamm as RFK Jr. — Wooden stated it was a “disgrace cuz I had such a good time watching it a pair weeks in the past.”
“Sure, take the piss for certain — that is what the present is about — however there should be a cleverer, extra nuanced, much less low-cost manner?” she wrote.
Followers additionally observed that Wooden’s White Lotus costar and onscreen love curiosity Walton Goggins had additionally seen the skit, however he had a much more constructive response to it. “Hahahahahhahaha Amazzzingggg,” Goggins wrote within the feedback part of SNL‘s Instagram submit.
That remark got here amid hypothesis that the previous costars are feuding, as followers observed that they’re now not following one another on social media.
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The White Lotus season 3 might be streamed in full on Max.
